How rats conquered Earth Cognitive flexibility, opportunistic survival, and social cooperation have allowed rats to thrive in conditions that wipe out other species.

Read more from @bittelmethis.bsky.social in @bigthink.com 👇

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"No" Is Its Own Kind of Freedom A true encounter about trust, wildness, and knowing when to let go

A true encounter about trust, wildness, and knowing when to let go.

"No" Is Its Own Kind of Freedom
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#AnimalStories #AnimalSentience #FeralCats

It’s Time to Celebrate Animal Sentience and Stop Squabbling Science and common sense clearly show that diverse animals are feeling beings

Animals feel.
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#AnimalSentience #CompassionateConservation #CognitiveEthology #AnimalEthics

Elephant Mourning Elephants gently touch the bones of their dead and carry stillborn calves for days. A glimpse into animal emotions.

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#AnimalSentience #ElephantGrief #ElephantEmotions

Animal Welfare Research For several years Buttercups have been working closely with Dr. Alan McElligott, who has been studying different aspects of goat behaviour, including...

Our research listed on the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats website: #AnimalWelfare #AnimalSentience www.buttercups.org.uk/animal-welfa...

A brown horse grazing peacefully in a lush, green meadow surrounded by wildflowers and tall grass.

🐴 DYK horses can smell human fear? New research shows they become more anxious when exposed to sweat from stressed people.

This is another reminder that horses are sensitive, sentient beings.

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#AnimalSentience #Compassion #Empathy #FarmAnimals #KindnessMatters #VeganVoices #AnimalFriends #EmotionalIntelligence #Wholesome #NextLevel

#speciesism #cows #dogs #animals #AnimalRights #AnimalSentience #FriendsNotFood #NoAnimalUse #meat #GoVegan #veganism

#vegan #Christmas #GoVegan #babies #animals #AnimalSentience #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation

Happy to sign this letter. Sorry that I had to

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Beautiful Jim Key The Smartest Horse That Ever Lived - A True Story (15:45) David Hoffman spent several years checking it out in Tennessee where he was raised and in the national archives. Find out more and watch now: tinyurl.com/bdd4a7js
#equine #horses #HorseBehavior #AnimalSentience #smarthorse

Ethics, Appetite, and the Intelligence What We Owe to the Minds Beneath the WavesA colleague recently sent us a photo from Madrid’s Mercado de San Miguel, one of those cathedral-like food halls where every counter gleams and every bite is ...

What do we owe to the minds beneath the waves? As we marvel at octopus intelligence, our appetite tells another story. Can compassion and cuisine coexist?

🌊 Read our new blog post: “Ethics, Appetite, and the Intelligence”
#OceanHoptimism #AnimalSentience #EthicalEating #Compassion #Octopus

We must see the #sea not as a resource, but as a living community.
Grateful to #SeaWilding2025 for this transformative vision: marine beings feel, suffer, and deserve respect.
The future depends on reimagining ourselves as interdependent, not dominant.
Honored to be part of it!

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The Influence of Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Attributions of Animal Sentience on Willingness to Own Pets The biophilia hypothesis proposes that humans have an innate emotional connection with other living organisms. Willingness to own (WTO) animals as pets could thus be explained by anthropomorphic at...

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In this new article, Dr. Denise Dillon and colleagues at @jcuofficial.bsky.social assess how fear and affect influence our willingness to own different species of pets.

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Donkey hair cortisol concentrations are associated with carrying heavy load and being beaten at work - BMC Veterinary Research Background Cortisol is often considered an indicator of stress. However, it is not a straightforward indicator of stress in animals and is more closely linked to arousal and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) axis activation. To better understand what animals are experiencing, other stressors, e.g., donkeys carrying heavy loads and being beaten, should be considered when interpreting cortisol levels. Our research aimed to assess how carrying mounted loads and working in challenging conditions impact donkey hair cortisol concentrations (HCC). For this purpose, thirty-five working donkeys were used. Data on the percent body weight ratio (%BWR) carried, the presence of skin wounds and lameness, provision of food and water, mounted load type, whether donkeys were beaten during work, and their working area were collected. Donkey hair samples were analyzed for HCC using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit and a multispectral plate reader. A multiple linear regression model was fitted to the data by stepwise backward elimination of variables. Results Donkeys were used for carrying fodder (n = 18; 51.4%) and bricks (n = 17; 48.6%) on their backs. Over half of the donkey owners provided water (54.3%, n = 19), and just under half provided food access (45.7%, n = 16) during the working day. The median HCC and %BWR were 4.34 pg/mg (interquartile range [IQR] 3.46–6.27 pg/mg) and 70.77% (IQR 57.0– 85.12%), respectively. Overall, 88.57% of donkeys carried loads above 50% BWR. High %BWR (estimate = 0.04, t = 2.75, p < 0.001), being beaten while working (estimate = 1.60, t = 4.49, p < 0.001), and carrying bricks (estimate = 0.96, t = 2.14, p = 0.04) were predictors of high HCC. Conclusion Carrying heavy loads of bricks and being beaten while working are likely stressful and can lead to increased activity of the HPA, resulting in higher levels of hair cortisol. Hair cortisol measurement is a valuable tool for assessing chronic stress in donkeys. Further research is necessary to assess HCC in donkeys working in different industries, such as mining, cart pulling, field plowing, and modern farming for hides and dairy products, to determine the relationship between cortisol, chronic stress, and the lives of animals.

Donkey hair cortisol concentrations are associated with carrying heavy load and being beaten at work. #AnimalWelfare #AnimalSentience bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Animals as Sentient Beings: Dr. Jane Goodall's Legacy Discover the legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall and her groundbreaking vision of animals as sentient beings. Discover how Dr. Goodall's work has changed our view of animals and ourselves.

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary view — seeing animals as sentient beings — erased boundaries and reshaped our understanding of life itself. 🐾
Join us at Perspective Living Magazine as we honour her legacy. www.perspectivelivingmagazine.com/post/animals... #JaneGoodall #AnimalSentience

Popular but Harmful – How Funny Pet Videos on Social Media Conceal Animal Suffering Every day, thousands of humorous animal videos are uploaded on social media platforms. In this study, 162 pet videos intended to be funny from various social media platforms were analyzed for conte...

2025. Popular but Harmful – How Funny Pet Videos on Social Media Conceal Animal Suffering. #AnimalWelfare #AnimalSentience www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Changing priorities about protective shelters: a review of a key method to investigate possible pain in crustaceans | Biology Letters Testing if non-human taxa experience pain is difficult because we need to exclude the possibility that responses are nociceptive reflexes. One approach is to identify an essential, high priority, reso...

2025. Changing priorities about protective shelters: a review of a key method to investigate possible pain in crustaceans | #AnimalSentience #AnimalWelfare via @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Dog Personality & Emotions: Unconditional Love & Forgiveness #doglove #dogemotions #dogpersonality

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#DogSpirituality #CanineConsciousness #HumanDogBond #AnimalSentience #PetLove #DogEmotions #DogIntelligence #doglife

Did you know that rejecting speciesism entails rejecting anthropocentrism, but not necessarily the other way around? 🌱

#AnimalRights #EndSpeciesism #AnimalEthics #AnimalJustice #AnimalLaw #AnimalRightsLaw #Speciesism #Anthropocentrism #AnimalSentience #AnimalInterests #EndAnimalExploitation

The 11th World Day for the End of Speciesism - ScienceOpen Blog This World Day for the End of Speciesism, learn about the science of non-human animal sentience and its implications for animal welfare.

Understanding the complex inner lives of non-human animals — explore the science of #AnimalSentience! 🐾🧠

This #WoDES (August 30), discover interdisciplinary #ScienceOpen Collections on:

🐴 Horse–human interactions
🐒 Primate tool use
🌍 #AnimalWelfare, and more.

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#vegan #GoVegan #veganism #animals #AnimalRights #NoAnimalUse #AnimalSentience

💬 What do you think? Should precarity guide our ethical choices?

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#AI #Animals #Ethics #Precarity #AnimalRights #AIEthics #Welfare #AIandAnimals #AnimalEthics #AnimalSuffering #AnimalSentience #AIWelfare #AISentience #PrecarityGuideline

For apes, out of sight isn't out of mind: Bonobos can mentally track multiple members of their social circle A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight.

#AnimalSentience #AnimalIntelligence

The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?

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⚖️ If we are unsure about an animal’s sentience, should the law give them the benefit of the doubt? Why or why not? How do you think this could be put into practice?

#AnimalRights #AnimalSentience #AnimalEthics #AnimalLaw #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalLawEducation #PrecautionaryPrinciple #SentientBeings

Let's call a spade a spade. Instead of using these terms, "Training Cattle to Virtual Fencing", a more accurate description would be "Training Cattle to Shock Collars". #AnimalWelfareWashing #AnimalWelfare #AnimalSentience

Cockatoos perform 30 distinct dance moves and may combine them in unique ways Captive cockatoos have at least 30 different dance moves in their repertoire, including headbanging and body rolls, according to a study by Natasha Lubke at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and ...

Why do such studies so defensive?

"Similarities with human dancing make it hard to argue against well-developed cognitive & emotional processes in parrots"

Far too much #20thCenturyThinking hanging around: #DiscardDescartes #AnimalSentience #AnimalEmotion
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